There are people who think that to harbor that thought is to be an evil sexist.
Maybe so, but I have always thought it was true to a degree.
I know some spectacular female engineers (far more talented than I will ever be) so it is not brainpower that is the issue, and I have never thought it was.
It is interest. And I do think there IS a difference. But liberals have a problem with that. They cannot believe for a single second that is true. In Nature vs. Nurture, they firmly believe that Nurture will win 100% if the time, no questions asked.
My brother and sister-in-law felt that way, but when their boy was growing up, no matter how hard they kept him away from those “sexist violent influences”, they couldn’t restrain him from going where nature wanted him to go.
For example, they did all they could to make guns bad and evil, but my brother once told me he actually took a slice of Wonder Bread and tore the crust off in the shape of a handgun and brandished it as such!
An no matter how hard they tried to keep dolls away from their daughter, she would make dishtowels into dolls.
I agree, and I am a female that is somewhat “male-brained” in my interests.
When our daughter was small, she had access to her older brothers’ toys and some she played with, but she mostly wanted girl toys. Being slightly affected by feminist thinking at the time, I was horrified when she wanted a Barbie doll at age 3. I realized then that girls follow their innate interests just as boys do. We have seen over the years that trying to make girls masculine and boys more feminine has been a recipe for disaster.